Daniel, Dominique. “Documenting the Immigrant and Ethnic Experience in American Archives.” The American Archivist 73, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2010): 82–104. Charting developments in the field since the 1960s, Dominique Daniel shows evolution of what she defines as “ethnic archiving”—the changes…
From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives
Caswell, Michelle, and Marika Cifor. “From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives.” Archivaria 81 (Spring 2016): 23–43. Caswell and Cifor propose a pivot from the rights-based framework used to discuss social justice in archives in favor…
Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work
Caswell, Michelle. Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work. New York: Routledge, 2021. Urgent Archives reckons with how pervasive and intertwined oppressive and violent practices are within Western archives. Caswell takes us through four chapters that introduce us to how harmful…